Massimo Santini MD, FESC, FACC, FACA

Massimo Santini, director, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, S Filippo Neri Hospital, Rome, Italy, and chair of the International Symposium on Progress in Clinical Pacing. performed the first fulguration of the atrioventricular node of resistant supraventricular tachycardia in Italy; he also implanted a pacemaker in the Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 10 years ago.